A Brief History of the Home Computer, Or Building a Better Mousetrap for Home Computer Users    by Earnest Long
Price: Free! 6810 words. Published on September 25, 2012. .
The writer was given a home computer nearly 30 years ago now as a teenager. It was a games machine but he was intrigued by doing more such as word processing. And 15 years later he bought a PC. And used it to write a novel. But what to do with his computer when he had written the last line of his novel? This is a book about how home PCs became the marketers dream of ubiquity for anything.